TonyInterruptor

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A hilarious, important novel. A correct and a real one. There is something in the writing that is wild in a virtuosic way and, needless to say, hugely intelligent -- Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold One of Britain's Greatest novelists. TonyInterruptor is a joyous and exhilarating ride which pushes you through the rabbit warren of art, literature and the human soul -- Camilla Grudova Brilliantly over-the-top... There could be no better person to write a comedy about art and its discontents... Barker seems incapable of putting a foot wrong. This is satire that sees right through you, but forgives you and teaches you to forgive yourself. It's that rare thing, a serious work of art that is also a giddy confection: a vehicle of pure delight -- Sandra Newman * Guardian * A comic masterpiece... As obtrusive as it is resplendent. It demands to be read * Telegraph * One of our most brilliantly eccentric novelists was on top form in this freewheeling farce about the online brouhaha that erupts after a heckler -disrupts a jazz concert. A fizzy comedy of 21st-century manners coupled with an intimate tale of family strife -- 'Best Fiction Books of the Year' * Daily Mail * A witty, hyperactive satire on art and authenticity... An out-of-the-ordinary author doing what others don't... A metafictional prankster less likely to break the fourth wall so much as bulldoze it * Observer * An antic, sometimes frantic dissertation on the way the cultured classes live now -- 'Books of the Year' * Times Literary Supplement * Barker is adept at capturing the paradoxes and absurdities of contemporary life... Barker revels in clever turns of phrase and comic exchanges... [A] witty, gleefully disruptive novel * Financial Times * A comic tour de force... Cleverly crafted and almost amorous... [TonyInterruptor] showcases her skill as a comic writer. An eccentricity of expression and a winningly agile approach to plot proves that Barker has a virtuosic command of the haphazard and the apparently arbitrary * Irish Times * The zaniest voice in modern English fiction... Nicola Barker is our laureate of the edge. This, her latest dispatch from the periphery, is a brilliant, if bewildering, novel with an eccentric take on the many ways we fail to live our lives honestly * Literary Review * Nicola Barker is the kind of novelist to arouse a baffled envy in the reader... An eccentric triumph * Times Literary Supplement * Barker is a supreme ironist... She mines plenty of riotous comedy here from the hall of mirrors circus of contemporary digital life * Daily Mail * An anarchic and lovingly perverse writer -- Ali Smith Barker's sense of plot and comic timing is faultless -- Rachel Cusk I think Nicola Barker is incapable of a dull page. Her work...is unified by its spirit of adventure, and by the drive of ambition behind each new, splendidly batty project -- Kevin Barry A blizzard of a novel - an account of disobedience and transformation; connection and departure. Barker's characters collide with one another gleefully, and the use of language is sublime. I found myself bouncing from one page to the next -- Fiona Mozley This book is extremely funny. It is deliriously pacy. It radiates with righteousness and purity of heart. It is truly unusual and truly new and it proves, once again, that Nicola Barker is a tribune of the human imagination -- Aidan Cottrell-Boyce No one writes like Barker... Tonyinterruptor is a wise, funny, spiritual and deeply human novel -- Ben Masters A freeform - and very funny - play on everything from art and authenticity to cancel culture. Fans of Barker's distinctive brand of literary comedy will not be disappointed. Newbies, welcome to the party * Maria Claire * Nicola Barker is such a mercurial, capricious novelist that it is sometimes occludes the fact that she is a profoundly serious writer... A joy and a challenge, an irreverence and a gauntlet * Scotland on Sunday * Brilliantly interrogates our understanding of the internet, love and truth * Vogue * A brilliant story about the struggle for authenticity in the digital age * Elle *